sciously balance, adjust, and employ
them. They are quite beyond his
immediate control, as they are beyond
all attempts to imitate them.

Cleverness may learn all the forms
and methods, but it is powerless to
imitate greatness; it can simulate the
conscious, dexterous side of greatness,
but it cannot simulate the unconscious,
vital side. The moment a man like
Voltaire attempts to deal with such a
character as Joan of Arc, his spiritual
and artistic limitations become pain-
fully apparent; of cleverness there is
no lack, but of reverence, insight,
depth of feeling, the affinity of the
great imagination for the great nature
or deed, there is no sign. The man
is entirely and hopelessly incapacitated
for the work by virtue of certain limi-
tations in his own nature of which
he is obviously in entire ignorance.

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